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London, Gb

Leading a multi-stream, agile, Innovation & Digital labs function, in the delivery of ground-breaking software products and AI initiatives. From experimentation to product MVP delivery and onward transition into service. Thought leader in innovation and product delivery concepts, identifying areas for improvement within the agile process. Managing a hybrid onshore/offshore resource pool of developers, testers and business analysts, resource allocation, budgets, capacity planning, and workload distribution. Optimising team efficiency and productivity. Responsible for the delivery of projects, ownership and evolution of delivery processes, methodologies and budgets. Influencing and supporting our multiple agile teams to deliver high-quality products, efficiently. Embracing and operating agile principles. Encouraging a culture of change and collaborative approach to delivery, that aligns with the firm's strategic goals. Collecting analysing and reporting on agile metrics to track team performance and project progress, implementing improvements where needed.

London, Gb

Head Of Development within prestigious law firm, responsible for concept, design and delivery of internal products to be used firmwide by lawyers and business operations departments. These applications enabled lawyers to support clients, increase operational efficiency, manage compliance, save costs or increase revenue. Examples include innovative, digital billing platform and firmwide resource and capacity management application.Created centre of excellence for Business Analysis, UI/UX Design, Agile and QA, used across range of both development and non-development projects. Managed initial creation of Power Platform community and environments to seek to build a rapid delivery function for quick-win organisational efficiency improvements.Managed both in-house and offshore team, which would grow as needed to meet project demand scale.Worked with stakeholders from strategic teams, lawyers and key operational resources of all levels, up to and including board level. Also, with subject matter experts and product owners on feature prioritisation, roadmap planning, budgets and ultimately, project delivery and product support.Coach and mentor to several people outside the team and work with them to develop their career, both in terms of their own growth, but also as part of succession planning. A keen people-manager and work to actively develop and give opportunities to the team, to develop them as people and enable positive work/life balance, in additional to their technical skills.Active, operationally, also managing IT Change Management function and processes within the technology department, chairing Change Advisory Board and being a change approver.

London, Gb

Head of Development within leading Professional Services organisation (now called Morae Global), operating within legal, financial services and real estate arenas.Responsible for conceptualising, designing and creating software products to assist client companies in these industries. Focus on efficiency, process re-engineering, document management, information management and workflow/BPM. Designed and built 9 products over 5 years. Ultimately also supporting their technical debt, roadmap and feature sets against client demand. Also responsible for bespoke client development projects. Engaged in pre-sales presentations and tender documents.Line management for geographically diverse internal team in UK, EMEA and APAC, made up of Project Management, Business Analysis, Developer, Solution Architect and QA resources. Also managed several offshore software development teams based in Ukraine, as well as SharePoint team in India.Accountable to Board for management, delivery and quality of development projects for diverse, multi-industry client-base, globally.

London, Gb

Line Manager to four development teams. Lead on BPM within a global, Magic Circle law firm. Responsible for design, development, testing and support of internal applications. Managed team including developers, business analysts and QA, both internal employees and those provided by outsourcer. Delivered projects on technologies as diverse as SharePoint, .Net, Metastorm, Elite 3e, Document Automation. Designed and built applications to manage matter opening, compliance, matter management, matter closure and partner tax compliance, all increasing efficiency, optimising process and managing risk and compliance.

London, Gb

Lead developer, Metastorm specialist on Workflow/Business Process Management activities and other multiple high-profile projects.

London, Gb

Team lead, responsible for the implementation, configuration and support of multiple SQL Server-based applications, including Document Management, HR/Payroll, Finance and CRM systems.

London, Gb

Managed busy global helpdesk of ~ 30 staff, working within strict SLAs. Implemented full technology refresh of ACD System and Helpdesk call management ITSM software.

Helpdesk Lead within an international partnership of Actuaries and Financial Services consultants. Managed a team of Helpdesk analysts and several additional off-site desk-side engineers.

Competitor and Market analysis for Home, Motor and Commercial product and pricing comparisons. Database design and IT support

Responsible for the analysis and calculation of mortgage indemnity claims, made by major financial institutions. Design and development of calculation models, databases and reports.

Training and Support of 200 staff on PC-Based technology

Dealing with all aspects of motor, household, travel and personal injury insurance claims within a regional office of a major insurer.

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